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They had moved house in mass. But no tomb of Mr. Bellston was visible, though, as he had lived at the manor-house, it would have been natural to find it here. In truth Nicholas was more anxious to discover that than anything, being curious to know how long he had been dead.
But they could not keep away the subject of Bellston, their voices dropping as it forced its way in.
Bellston showed his gratification by one of his angry-pleasant flushes he had hardly dared to ask for what she proffered freely; and having requested Nicholas to take the dairyman's daughter, led Christine to her place, Long promptly stepping up second with his charge.
Bellston! exclaimed Christine; 'don't be too sure about that word "simple"! You little think what they see and meditate! Their reasonings and emotions are as complicated as ours. She spoke with a vehemence which would have been hardly present in her words but for her own relation to Nicholas. The sense of that produced in her a nameless depression thenceforward.
Their wills were somewhat enfeebled now, their hearts sickened of tender enterprise by hope too long deferred. Having postponed the consideration of their course till a year after the interment of Bellston, each seemed less disposed than formerly to take it up again. 'Is it worth while, after so many years? she said to him.
A plank bridge, which Bellston had caused to be thrown over the stream during his residence with her in the manor-house, was now again removed, and all was just the same as in Nicholas's time, when he had been accustomed to wade across on the edge of the cascade and come up to her like a merman from the deep.
This proceeding became as periodic as an astronomical recurrence. Twice a week he came all through that winter, all through the spring following, through the summer, through the autumn, the next winter, the next year, and the next, till an appreciable span of human life had passed by. Bellston still tarried.
'Ay, that they wool, said Squire Everard. They followed to the lawn; and here it proved that James Bellston was as shy, or rather as averse, as any of the tenantry themselves, to acting the part of fugleman. Only the parish people had been at the feast, but outlying neighbours had now strolled in for a dance. 'They want "Speed the Plough," said Bellston, coming up breathless.
Bellston was a traveller an explorer it was his calling; you may have heard his name as such? 'I remember. Nicholas recalled the fact that this very bent of Mr. Bellston's was the incentive to his own roaming. 'Well, when he married he came and lived here with his wife and his wife's father, and said he would travel no more.
Bellston on this topic, till she thought that upon the whole she liked the young man. The garden being his uncle's, he took her round it with an air of proprietorship; and they went on amongst the Michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums, and through a door to the fruit-garden. A green-house was open, and he went in and cut her a bunch of grapes. 'How daring of you! They are your uncle's.
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